The question of a therapist's required number of supervised hours prior to licensing came up in another thread. It made me wonder how many therapists pad their resumes by counting those hours/years (and other related activities) as experience.

My examples of resume padding:

I went back to do a license search on a previous therapist that moved away. I found that she's only been licensed 5 years, although she listed 14 years' experience. And another that I'd schedule an initial appointment with listed a similar number of years' experience, but it was clear to me that she was counting several years spent working at at crisis center before even being in grad school.

Have any of you noticed this in searching for therapists? (btw, my current one knows how to add and everything lined up with number of licensed years.) It reminds me of trying to beef up a resume when I was first looking for work, counting anything and everything as experience.